From the small town of Sighet in Transylvania to the huge concentration camps of Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel, the author and victim of the book Night, the horrifying experience of the Holocaust. Wiesel is a 15 year old Jewish boy who was captured by the Germans or “Nazis” during WWII. He went through an overwhelming amount of trauma, like when he got separated from his mother and sisters and watching his father suffer an unbearable amount of pain that eventually killed him. The fact is, power is a tool that can corrupt itself and others, it can ruin people’s lives and it can do that without people even realizing it.
In the memoir “Night” Elie Wiesel shows us how Nazi Germany ran concentration camps where the Jew’s resided, through detailed language, chilling experiences, and imagery such as when Moshe was beaten brutally by the wip of the officer that ran his concentration camp. Elie Wiesel didn’t only write a book, he wrote a memoir, one that was written with the blood and tears of those painful moments in time to show us the pain and suffering faced by the Jews during WWII when they were held in the concentration camp owned by Nazi Germany. In these concentration camps there were different camps that had you do different jobs, but within these concentration camps there are blocks, and within these blocks are units now these units are led by the Oberkapo
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel narrates the legendary tale of what happened to him and his father during the Holocaust. In the introduction, Wiesel talks about how his village in Seghet was never worried about the war until it was too late. Wiesel’s village received advanced notice of the Germans, but the whole village ignored it. Throughout the entire account, Wiesel has many traits that are key to his survival in the concertation camps.
In the novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel communicates with the readers his thoughts and experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes his fight for survival and journey questioning god’s justice, wanting an answer to why he would allow all these deaths to occur. His first time subjected into the concentration camp he felt fear, and was warned about the chimneys where the bodies were burned and turned into ashes. Despite being warned by an inmate about Auschwitz he stayed optimistic telling himself a human can’t possibly be that cruel to another human.
On March 19th, 1944, Nazi forces invaded Hungary, the following summer German forces deported roughly 500,000 Jewish people to various concentration camps. Ellie Wiesel was one of them, he writes about this in his book “night.” A harrowing and brave true story about a Hungarian Jewish boy surviving the holocaust and the horror of Nazi ideals. The simple act of writing is an immensely complex thing to harness and implement into a deeper meaning.
“‘I have terrible news,’ he said at last. ‘Deportation.’ The ghetto was to be completely wiped out. We were to leave street by street the following day” (Wiesel 11). Throughout the vast novel, Night,by Elie Wiesel, the protagonist Elie had gone through agonizing experiences, for the duration of the gruesome and unspeakable genocide.
Lack of Humanity, Loss of Identity In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, Elie begins the novel living a normal life in the small town of Sighet in Transylvania. He lives with a family of six, with his mother, father, and three sisters. The story picks up quickly after the Nazis move in, first taking away the town’s rights to own any gold, jewelry, or any valuables, then no longer have the right to restaurants, cafes, synagogues, or to even travel by rail. Soon the town of Sighet then came the ghettos. It was prohibited from leaving their homes after six o 'clock in the evening.
Timeline: What are the most important events that occur in the novel? 1. A short time after Elie met Moishe the Beadle and starts learning the Kabbalah from him, Moishe, and all the other foreign Jews, were expelled for their homes in Sighet. Several months later Moshe returns to the town to inform the people that the foreign Jews were not only deported but executed by the Gestapo (German soldiers).
In the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, the preface reflects the impact and difficulties the concentration camps brought to being a part of the Holocaust. Elie conveys the horrific memories and the responsibility he had gained after being separated from his family. Elie had a lot of weight on his shoulders to provide
In Eli Wiesel´s the ¨Night¨ the internal conflict is within himself and his struggle to maintain his belief in god. In the beginning of the story Elie writes ¨Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion.¨ what he is talking about is the order an SS officer gave which was ¨Men to the left! Women to the right!¨, these ¨eight words¨ changed his life forever, because that was the last time he saw his mother and two sisters. A bit later in the story he writes about a question he was asked by a strange man, the question was ¨Here, kid, how old are you?¨ Elie answered 15, this enraged the man he said ¨No. Eighteen.¨. Elie didnt know this yet but this stranger saved his and his fathers lives by telling them to lie about their age.
Screams of anguish, the smell of burning flesh, corpses lining the crimson soil—these are only a few of the horrors one would face as a Jewish prisoner in a concentration camp at the time of the Holocaust. Eliezer Wiesel, author of the memoir Night, has witnessed all of this, at the young age of 15. Over the course of the catastrophe, Eliezer shows drastic signs of spiritual change before, during, and after being held prisoner at the camps of death. Prior to the incident, Elie’s faith in his God was very strong. He describes bringing his needs to his father as, “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah,” (page 4).
Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer, the protagonist, is transported and moved to numerous concentration camps. His story, which is corresponding to Wiesel’s biography, is representative to the lives of a billion other Jews. Jews were stripped away from their families, beliefs, identity, and freedom. They could no longer express their faith in God or have the human right to live where desired. During the holocaust, nothing was fair, everything was dark and cruel.
With the typically good vs. evil theme being portray, there is always a climax where things go insanely wrong and awful. Throughout the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the Jews can be seen as who are struggling with their humanity while being kept in the internment camp. Though the conflict is portrayed early on in this book, the way that the event is being described is very essential to know the author’s feeling. This can be seen near or in the very end of the story where the author can’t put into words what had happened to him and describe only a sentimental amount of it. Not only was the main character struggling with his humanity, the people around him was too…
PASZEK 1 Jake Paszek May 18, 2017 Period 6 Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Literature Circle #9 – Artistic Adventurer Book: Night by Elie Wiesel “I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no person should witness: gas chambers built by learned engineers.
Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the personal tale of his account of the inhumanity and brutality the Nazis showed during the Holocaust. Night depicts the story of a young Jew from the small town of Sighet named Eliezer. Wiesel and his family are deported to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. He must learn to survive with his father’s help until he finds liberation from the horror of the camp. This memoir, however, hides a greater lesson that can only be revealed through careful analyzation.